Zabaglione Recipe
Ingredients:
- 5 eggs yolks
- 1/2 cup superfine sugar
- 2/3 cup Marsala or sweet sherry
- Fresh friut or amaretti cookies, to serve (optional)
Directions:
- Place the egg yolks in a large mixing bowl.
- Add the superfine sugar to the egg yolks and beat well until the mixture is thick and very pale and has doubleed in volume.
- Place the bowl containing the egg yolk and sugar mixture over a saucepan of gently simmering water.
- Add the Marsala or sherry to the egg yolk and sugar mixture and continue beating until the foam mixture becomes warm.
- This process may take as long as 10 minutes.
- Pour the mixture, which should be frothy and light, into 4 wine glasses.
- Serve the zabaglione warm with fresh fruit or amaretti cookies if you wish.